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▪ I. † surrounder1 Obs. rare—1. [a. AF. surounder, inf. used subst.; see surround v. and -er4.] Overflow, inundation.
1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 83 What grounds lye within the..danger of waters, either within the surrounder by the sea, or the inundation of the fresh waters. ▪ II. surrounder2|səˈraʊndə(r)| [f. surround v. + -er1.] One who or that which surrounds.
1683Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 92 They fence themselves in with so many surrounders [orig. tanto agmine] of Magisterial Definitions. 1789F. Burney Diary 18 Jan., I had no plan but to save appearances to the surrounders. 1829Napier Penins. War vii. iii. (Rtldg.) I. 345 The troops to be surrounded were more..numerous than the surrounders. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry II. 1 Some poets may learn of their ordinary surrounders. 1890Gunter Miss Nobody ii. (1891) 23 ‘Not play in it!’ cry several of his surrounders. |